Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-25
THE PANHANDLE.
Tue Northwest Portion Of Texas COM
~. ing 0ut-The DrSuth Mere SIsned
Ag2ins! Than SHINING.
rexsa Injured by the Missionaries VINO
went Forth 10 Garner AIms-The
- Fires Inths North.
Fraisisggeanesda1,sDailv.

Mr.. John o. Howard, oGe of the enter
prisin9 citizens of Wichita Falls, was in
the city yesterday and paid THE GAZETTE
pleasant call. Mr.. Howard was one of
the original boomers of Wichita Falls
and the Panhandle, and he is not yet
tired or the least discouraged. He has
made his home in the Falls, and proposes
to fight it out on that line il it takes all
summer and four corner lots thrown in.
elbow is the big city getting along?"
asked the reporter.
"You mean Wichita Falls?"
eyes"
"Just as I always said it would be-the
best town in the northwest. We hgve had
e somewhat dull time lately, but things
are improving just now, and by putting
your ear 10 the ground you can hear the
boom coming"
"Did the drouth sffect you much last
year,"
considerable; but no more than
other pisces in the state, and its effects
sre over now and are no longer felt. We
had little drought IN Texas, and in
stantlY the fact WAS heralded over the
earth-n
"And begging missionaries went
FORTH" interpolared the scribe, giving
Mr.. Howard a chance to catch his breath
"And begging missionaries went
forth,n repeated Mr.. Howard. eve
were advertised north and south, east
and west, in the old world and the new,
and on both hemlspheres as on the verge
otstarvation."
aE'sDo you think the begging hurt US
worse than the drought"
sit did; If has hurt US more than you
can imagine, and is hurting Us still.
Texas is never thought of in the north
and east except in connection with slkali
plains or drouth-stricken territory"
'TeXas is not alone; other states have
suffered from the drouth."
"TeXas is not alone, to be sure, and
she has suffered nothing comparatively.
Look al Illinois, Indiana and Michigan,
where drouth has prevailed all the sum-
mer through-Where people have had to
haul water fifteen or twenty miles TO
drink, and where they are forced now to
drive their stock out of the country
and sell them at sacrifice. They are
digging ertesisn wells, praying for rain
and fighting forest fires which threaten
destruction 20 all things, and yet they
are not out On the h0usetOps crying
starvation and suffering, nor are the-r
missionaries down here or anywhere else
begging aims. Texas cried oat before
she was good hurt. We had some cases
which we had to take care of, and we
could have taken care of them ourselves
without advertising our entire state as
being in state of restitution "
"You think then, that when the public
mind becomes disabused, PEG lie will
again take heart and flock towards the
northwest"
81 do; and we look for better times
soon and a rapid settlement Of the
country. As far as WiChits Falls is con-
esrned, that town will tske i spring for
wsrd now that the Rock Islands coming
Is is an assured fact. It will help the
town snd the country. That road will
open up some of the finest country
'on the globe for farming purposes and
thissHilI surely be settled up. We are in
no way disheartened over our prospects,
but on the contrary feel rather jubilsnt.
MfsHoward SAID something else about
the EaIls, but if. vas of private and val
liable shsrscsaW which will cost big money
to ind oIt&s